Example sentences of "[is] [not/n't] possible to distinguish " in BNC.
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| 1 | Health statistics tend to relate to large psychiatric hospitals which include younger patients and often it is not possible to distinguish costs for acute or assessment beds or for outpatient or day hospital attendances . |
| 2 | Needless to say , this gives rise to considerable confusion , for it is not possible to distinguish the results of scavenging from predation on the bone modifications alone . |
| 3 | bone digestion in prey assemblages is the most diagnostic feature by which predators may be identified from the bones of their prey , although here too it is not possible to distinguish all predator species . |
| 4 | At this level of analysis it is not possible to distinguish adequately between a diurnal raptor , some of the owls , or mammalian carnivores , and a rather more detailed form of analysis becomes necessary . |
| 5 | Secondly , it is not possible to distinguish in the aggregate figures either those married women who are not entitled to pensions until their husbands reach the age of 65 or those aged 60–4 whose husbands do not appear in the statistics . |
| 6 | Within the context of a single equation model it is not possible to distinguish between these various hypotheses . |
| 7 | At the present time , it is not possible to distinguish between the other alternative explanations , though it may be that both factors operate to modulate the pattern of frequencies recorded at the body surface . |